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Marie Antoinette's golden watch was stolen in a dramatic heist – and is now on view in London

The Daily Telegraph 08 Feb 2025
The watch’s creator, Abraham-Louis Breguet (1747-1823), was a Swiss-born merchant’s son ... The watch’s creator, Abraham-Louis Breguet, was given an unlimited budget for the task Credit ... Abraham-Louis Breguet himself almost shared his queen’s fate.
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Sotheby’s To Hold A Sale Of Historic Breguet Timepieces In November

Forbes 30 Jan 2025
Sotheby's will honor Abraham-Louis Breguet with a dedicated auction celebrating the 250th anniversary of the foundation of his eponymous company in Paris in 1775 ... .
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Mohanlal's ₹1.1 crore watch is a reflection of his personality: Elegant, sophisticated yet eclectic

Hindustan Times 23 Jan 2025
Case in point ... Also read ... As per a by Watchpaparazzi.com, Mohanlal owns Richard Mille 11-03 McLaren, Breguet Tradition, Louis Moinet Cosmic Art Moon Green Edition, Bovet 19 Thirty Dimier, Breitling Endurance Pro, Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore.
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Marie Antoinette

The Daily Mail 19 Nov 2024
The Breguet No ... Abraham-Louis Breguet was given an unlimited budget to craft an exceptional timepiece for the famously opulent wife of King Louis XVI ... It will explore how the monarchs Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI encouraged scientific pursuit.
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Donald Trump is selling a $100,000 gold watch with a tourbillon. Wait, a what?

East Bay Times 02 Oct 2024
Daniel Miller . (TNS) Los Angeles Times. Two hundred grams of gold. 122 diamonds ... a tourbillon ... Abraham-Louis Breguet, widely considered the greatest watchmaker of all time, invented the tourbillon around 1795 and his namesake company still makes them ... .
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Donald Trump is selling $100,000 watches. Are they really worth it?

Gulf News 28 Sep 2024
Trump, of course, owns yellow gold Victory unit No. 1 ... Is $100,000 expensive for a watch like this? Yes ... Plus ... The device was invented in 1801 by Abraham-Louis Breguet, who sold timepieces to Napoleon and Marie Antoinette ... This is pretty common ... .
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Donald Trump is selling $100,000 watches, are they worth it?

Hindustan Times 28 Sep 2024
On Thursday, former President Donald Trump announced on his Truth Social platform that he was selling an Official Trump Watch Collection ... 1 ... The device was invented in 1801 by Abraham-Louis Breguet, who sold timepieces to Napoleon and Marie Antoinette.
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Tales from the atelier: Breguet

The Times/The Sunday Times 19 Aug 2024
Born in 1747, Abraham-Louis Breguet began an apprenticeship with his stepfather, a watchmaker in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, in his early teens ... It was there that the celebrated watch brand Breguet was conceived ... Louis Vuitton.
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Breguet Unveils Classique Double Tourbillon Quai De L’Horloge Watch

Forbes 26 Jun 2024
Today is the day that Breguet celebrates the Tourbillon — the invention of Abraham-Louis Breguet on June 26, 1801 — an invention that changed horological history ... .
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Antiques: What made Napoleon love his Breguet Watch?

Desert Sun 16 Jun 2024
And that is Breguet ... The founder was Abraham-Louis Breguet, born in 1747 and a rare example of one who is both a skilled innovator and exceptional designer ... More recently, Breguet timepieces have been carried by Arthur Rubinstein and Winston Churchill.
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A new wave of watchmakers respects classic Swiss designs

Swissinfo 27 Apr 2024
SWI swissinfo.ch speaks to members of this new wave of watchmakers ... Abraham-Louis Breguet no longer leads Breguet, but his presence lives on ... .
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Today in Israeli History: April 12-18

The American Israelite 12 Apr 2024
April 12, 1951Knesset Creates Yom HaShoah ... G ... The loot includes 57 watches crafted by 18th century French-Swiss artisan Abraham-Louis Breguet; one of them, a timepiece made for Marie Antoinette, is valued at $30 million ... .
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Why We Have Women To Thank For The Rise Of The Wristwatch

Vogue 07 Mar 2024
Although Breguet’s archive ...Today, the Queen of Naples’s watch is nowhere to be found,” says Emmanuel Breguet, a descendant of Breguet’s founder Abraham-Louis Breguet and archivist for the maison.
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Tourbillon watches that have horophiles in a spin

The Times/The Sunday Times 02 Mar 2024
The tourbillon was developed by Abraham-Louis Breguet — having been invented by the British watchmaker John Arnold at the end of the 18th century — to counter the effects of gravity in the quest for greater precision.
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Taylor Swift

The Daily Mail 16 Feb 2024
... to a Louis Vuitton show ... According to Christie's, which last sold the watch in 2007, these watches were invented by Abraham Louis Breguet in an era when it was 'unseemly to read the time in public'.

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